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the skills and knowledge of refurbishment acquired when Frogmore Cottage was brought up to their exacting standards at a cost of two million pounds.

Sussex Drive, in the area known as New Edinburgh in Ottawa, was named after Prince Frederick, son of King George 111, a noted abolitionist. The 35-room private home was completed in 1868 and was called in unpronounceable Welsh “Gorffwysfa”, meaning “a place of rest”. It has been modified and improved over the years at a cost for example of: $500,000 –yes, half a million in 1950. The swimming pool paid for by public subscription for the benefit of Pierre Trudeau cost $175,000. The dwelling became the official home of prime ministers in 1951 but has been allowed to deteriorate, apparently much to the amusement of Jean Chretien. It now stands empty, semi-derelict, eating its head off cost wise metaphorically while being eaten alive literally by rodents and mold. I view the unnecessary deterioration of 24 Sussex Drive and the shameful disruption in the royal family in the same light. Any return to royal life and a respected position in this country and the world has been rendered out of the question as Harry and Meghan have turned their backs on dignity, service to the Commonwealth and the lands of their origin for the superficiality and notoriety of tinsel town living, preferring material gain, ephemeral praise and fame.

How grateful we should all be to Steven Guilbeault, our environment minister, who has again explained to us all and Yves Giroux, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the inestimable importance to our economy and the world of the inappropriately called carbon tax. This will be remembered for all time as the “Trudeau tax” but personally I think “pollution levy” would have been better as this would cover everything from industry to back alleyways and would have been less contentious.

As the tax is so valuable it should be expanded, increased, doubled or tripled thus flooding Chrystia’s coffers. The CRA demands would be met and their numbers increased to streamline the mailing out of rebates. The national debt would simply evaporate and there would be no deficits.

The nation would be so grateful to Mr. Trudeau that a totally refurbished 24, Sussex Drive - ($35 million) would be gifted to him and his lineage as their new ancestral home and centre for the currently beleaguered Trudeau Foundation.